"When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice."

-- Anne Michaels

#Gratitude Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Book Quotes

“What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.”

Source : William Golding (2013). “Rites of Passage: With an introduction by Robert McCrum”, p.156, Faber & Faber
“I came out when I was 15 and I was a very active teenager in that regard.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.”

Source : Elif Batuman (2010). “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”, p.290, Macmillan
“No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.”
“I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.”

Source : "Bob Hoskins interview: 'I'm as calm as a Buddhist monk'". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2001.
“What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.”
“Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.”
“Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.”

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